Биография

Guncel Gursel Artiktay was born 1986 in Bursa. After graduating elemantary, middle and high school in this city, he completed his undergraduate education in Musicology Department at Hacettepe University and graduate education at Istanbul Technical University Musicology and Music Theory department. Different cultures which he saw, read and learned, has created a variation on his musical identity. During his university years he played different rock bands which play his compositions. In the meantime he has worked as a chorister in Ministry of Culture Turkish Folk Music Youth Choir, Turkish Radio Television Polyphonic Youth Choir and as a soloist in Bursa Zeki Müren Turkish Music Choir. At present he is research assistant at Musicology Department of Istanbul Technical University, working on film music and evolutionary musicology.